New Barracuda Load Balancer FDC Delivers40 Gbps Throughput at Industry Disruptive Price

Barracuda has extended its Load Balancer product family with the new Barracuda Load Balancer FDC model T740. Built on Intel architecture and featuring improved packet processing performance by up to ten times, Barracuda Load Balancer FDC delivershigh 40Gbps throughput at an industry disruptive price, the press release said. Designedfor virtualized data centers, Barracuda Load Balancer FDC provides scalability and high availability for websites and cloud services. It monitors the health of servers and evenly distributes server loads – all while maintaining session persistence and a seamless user experience in the event that one or more servers become overburdened or unresponsive.

The Barracuda Load Balancer FDC is a hardware appliance that is designed for virtualized data center environments requiring high throughput traffic distribution across application server infrastructures that consolidate storage and compute resources. The Barracuda Load Balancer FDC allows organizations to decouple the application access control and application security from the front end device. This architecture enables the front end device to remain solely focused on network traffic distribution, allowing the application access control and the application security to live closer to the application in the virtual environment.

Highlightsinclude:

• Performance – Leverage modern and open software technologies on top of standard Intel architecture hardware, delivering high 40Gbps throughput load balancing.
• Availability – Redistribute traffic for efficient use of server resources, employing advanced technologies for monitoring server and application health, ensuring optimal utilization of resources.
• Control-Deliver resilient and responsive services with granular control over application traffic. Barracuda FDC provides management capabilities for dispersed environments.

“The Barracuda Load Balancer FDC makes the most of packet processing by using the DPDK and Intel® architecture to provide fast 40 Gbps throughput for application delivery at a disruptive price-point,” said Bob Ghaffari, Director Enterprise & Appliances, Network Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “The Barracuda Load Balancer FDC enables Application Delivery Networks that provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration – all crucial in modern virtualized data centers.”